BSkyB is to pay £4.9 billion to take over Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia, creating a European media powerhouse

Targeting a younger, female audience, ITVBe will become the exclusive home of ITV’s The Only Way is Essex, as well as featuring acquired content, including US Real Housewives.

There were mixed results for commercial television channels in June, with only ITV – on the back of World Cup fever – reporting any significant gains.

After the longest period of continuous growth in the survey’s 14-year history, Richard Sexton, chief operating officer at Carat, shares his analysis of the latest findings.

The Android App helps viewers plan how to watch, record shows remotely and catch up on some of the free TV shows available on Freesat.

Rightster, a global b2b video network that runs more than 800 YouTube channels, said the deals will more than double the number of content partners the company works with.

BBC’s hit series Sherlock is set to return, with shooting of a special to commence in January 2015 followed by three new episodes later in the year.

Kantar has today announced the acquisition of the Guardian Digital Agency, a specialist data visualisation, site design and interactive development agency previously part of Guardian News & Media.

The majority of commercial television channels performed well in May, with just one reporting a loss in revenue.

BBC Radio 5 live has today announced some of its biggest names, including Richard Bacon, Victoria Derbyshire and Shelagh Fogarty, are to leave the station as it undergoes a radical makeover.